Walk the plank

    被迫放弃

    A: Since the transaction is done, do you have any advice for me?

    B: When you take over the store, think twice about making the manager walk the plank.

    Note: The idiom means to "relinquish something, as a position, office, etc., under compulsion." Walking the plank was a method of execution thought to have been practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship. The term has been used in modern times to describe the resignation of a public figure which occurs amidst controversy, or was demanded by the public, corporate shareholders and suchlike.